The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Al Smith Dinner Drama, Diddy Lawsuits Explained, & Israel’s Strike on Hamas

Episode Date: October 18, 2024

Craig Collins sits in for Dana. Attorney Rich Lenkov joins us to break down the multiple lawsuits against Diddy. Thursday evening’s Al Smith Dinner featured a roast by Donald Trump among many other comedians. Leftists ironically claim Trump is mentally unfit to be President. Israel takes out Hamas’ leader. A CNN guest continues to claim no one in the media tried to suppress the Hunter Biden laptop story. Please visit our great sponsors:Black Rifle Coffeehttps://blackriflecoffee.com/danaUse code DANA to save 20% on your next order.  Byrnahttps://byrna.com/danaVisit today for 10% off and get the protection you need.  Hillsdalehttps://danaforhillsdale.comClaim your free pocket Constitution today at DanaForHillsdale.comKelTechttps://KelTecWeapons.comInnovation. Performance. Keltec. Learn more at KelTecWeapons.com today.Life360https://life360.comCoordinate family life with Life360.  Use code DANA to get 1 month of the Gold Package FREE.Patriot Mobilehttps://patriotmobile.com/danaGet a free month of service with code Dana.ReadyWise https://readywise.comUse promo code Dana20 to save 20% on any regularly priced item.Relief Factorhttps://relieffactor.comDon’t mask pain, fight it naturally with Relief Factor.  Visit online or call 1-800-4-RELIEF today!Tax Network USAhttps://TNUSA.com/DANADon’t let the IRS control your life—empower yourself with Tax Network USA. Visit TNUSA.com/DANA

That's right. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrill to be with you. A bunch of stuff out there to talk about. Trump was hilarious the other night when giving basically a stand-up version of a speech at the Al Smith dinner. There's a bunch of things politics to talk about. I was just joking off the air with the producer of this program about how many things just feel so Groundhog Day-esque or how so many people are sick of some of the politics and whatnot. So I figured why not book a friend of mine a guest? His name is Richard. Lenkov, a lawyer to jump on the show and talk about something fun and uplifting. Oh, no, I'm kidding. We're actually going to be talking about P. Diddy and the horrific lawsuit that's out there.

But this is going to be a huge story, I think. It's already big, but I think it's going to keep getting bigger as more of these famous names come out. So welcome to the show. Rich, you have a podcast, the Legal Face Off podcast with WGen Radio. Definitely a very high-profile show out there in the world of legal talk and whatnot. How you doing, buddy? It's great to be with you again. Lots going on in the legal world for sure.

Yes. Let's start right with P. Diddy Combs, because this is the kind of thing that I think we're only scratching the surface of what we're going to know here. But there are starting to be more famous names added to lists of different lawsuits. There's all kinds of discussions now about what was actually going on at these parties that he was hosting. And if people were getting drugged, where do you want to start with P. Diddy? Well, let's be careful, first of all. when using the verb scratching when talking about she did he. Bear it up.

But, yeah, this week we saw another rash of lawsuits, civil lawsuits. It should be made clear that these are distinguished from the criminal charges that he's facing, which are considerable. But this week he was hit with a bunch of lawsuits alleging that he sexually assaulted a 16-year-old boy at one of his famous white parties. The other lawsuits allege rape and sexual assault, and to your point, the rumors out there are that there are many more celebrities that will be named or have been named in these lawsuits that perhaps will put P. Diddy as one of them, you know, not as famous people that are tied up in this. So we'll see how that works out. Yeah, no, I imagine that that will be the continuing conversation. and I have to be honest, just real quick for a second,

yes, P. Diddy is famous, not just as a musician, but as someone who discovered and, you know, worked with other talented musicians. But I don't know if he is at the height of his fame up until all of this going on. So I imagine as names come out, if anybody is more of a currently relevant individual,

they will become the focal point of the discussion publicly and maybe even from a law standpoint. I imagine if there's a bigger name than P. Diddy that gets dragged into this, that there might be reasons that, you know, Pete Ditty or other people, depending on the significance of the connection, I might wind up with some sort of deal to turn on other people. I would assume for sure, for sure this is true if politically relevant people became involved. What do you think of that? For sure. For sure. I mean, these kind of deals aren't just limited to what you see on TV or,

you know, movies. They really happen. Federal prosecutors build these cases on the idea that you turn someone at the lower end of the pyramid against someone at the higher end. So there's no question that from what we've seen already in the indictments, there are people who have worked with Diddy that are going to testify against him. But your question is a great one. Perhaps Diddy is one of the lower runs. What if Diddy is the one who makes a deal and turns on some people higher above, which hold names like Jay-Z, Beyonce.

These are rumors right now, but we've certainly. heard them implicated. One more thing is interesting that I'm not sure if you saw. I just found out literally this morning was Liam Payne, who the member of One Direction, who unfortunately died a couple of days ago, there's a story where he met Diddy

a few years ago, shook his hand at a party with Jay-Z, and he said he was struck by any evil laugh, and he was scared of him. Wow. I wasn't yeah, and I was kind of kind of person. Who knows if Diddy's reach goes to

down the jail cell, maybe he was involved with the death, the untimely death cell about Liam Payne. Who knows? I know. I'm sure that those are the kind of questions that people start to ask and wonder about whenever anything shocking happens. I know that a lot of discussions, too, for that, have been about how it's fairly likely that Liam Payne committed suicide, even though I don't think it's been an official report yet.

So who knows? It is a good question. And a dark question, in all honesty. Let me ask you, because we can shift to some of the other topics you guys have been talking about on your podcast. Before I get to that, like, as someone who lives in this world, both as a practicing lawyer and someone who talks about it through your show, how difficult is it to keep your sense of, I don't know, positivity or some version of, like, happiness in your life when you're reading the craziness that is both the way that the legal system goes after people and the ridiculousness to which some of these stories actually go as far as, you know, dark. Yeah, I mean, it certainly keeps it interesting. you know, you're right. There's no, there's never anything that surprises you after a while.

I've been doing the podcast for 10 years and a legal analyst on a bunch of channels, including yours. And yeah, just when you think that people can't get any stranger, they do and that these crimes can't get any word or where they do. Yeah, no, absolutely. I know that you were talking about another lawsuit. This lawsuit is asked in Oklahoma Supreme Court, asked the Oklahoma Supreme Court to stop a mandate. Give me some more information about this. It's something about Bibles? Yeah, there's a order for Bibles to be distributed to Oklahoma Public Schools. The Bibles, admittedly, the request has very specific requirements,

including that they include the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. You know, we all know probably by now that former President Trump, has put out Bibles with his name on it that contain those documents. Well, perhaps not to presently, these Bibles are supposed to include those. There was a lawsuit brought yesterday in Oklahoma trying to prevent the Oklahoma State Department of Education from spending state money on those Bibles. I think the order was about $3 million. And the lawsuit alleges that this is an improper use of state funds.

It doesn't really go into as far as I could tell. question of whether the state can put Bibles in public schools. They can. That's been litigated. I think this is more of a question of whether this particular order, given the requirements, are proper. And actually, admittedly, there's a bunch of different plaintiffs involved in this that are coalescing, including, you know, educators in the United Church of Christ and Oklahoma. So there's lots of different folks involved with it. So it's just because Trump is somehow tied to this, that, there would be a lawsuit.

There's nothing to do about the Bible itself. I think it's really, yeah, it's really a protest in using the Trump Bibles in the school system rather than Bibles in general. Yeah, that's crazy. We will see what happens with that lawsuit, then I guess moving forward to see what the issue is there. That's got to be a weird thing to wind up being like, the Bible's fine, even though separation of church and state winds up having all those typical avenues.

And I know you said it's already been litigated. But the fact that there's a Trump component to it, we're not okay with that. That's the part where we draw the line. That's odd. One other story, just selfishly, because I know you're in Chicago. Chicago Bears are in the news for a couple reasons. The team isn't playing so bad, although at times not looking so great either. But Jay Cutler, former quarterback was arrested outside Nashville the other day.

You have some information about that story. Our quarterback now is a guy named Caleb Williams, having a great rookie season. first rookie quarterback in Bears history to throw five touchdown back to back. Hold on, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. I'm sorry, Rich. I don't mean to interrupt you. Is first Bears quarterback in history the same as like a tallest midget?

Is that what we're doing right now? I don't mean, but I kind of feel like that's what that is. We'll continue. Admittedly, it's the world's smallest group. But, yeah, we don't have a great history of successful quarterbacks. That's why we are so interested in the J. Color story. Statistically, he's in the top five. Most successful quarterbacks by far in Barris history.

He was with us for a couple of years. He was arrested yesterday for DUI in Tennessee, where he lives. According to the report, officers arrived, they noticed a strong mole of alcohol. He had bloodshot eyes. He refused the field sobriety test, spent some time in jail overnight, and then was released.

He was also in possession of a gun. You know, I think, Greg, this is, only his second biggest offense, if it's true. His biggest offense, of course, was leaving the first half of the NFC title game against the Packers at the Field and forcing us to use our third-string quarterback

and lose to the Packers. I was in the stadium and led the course of Booth. Two days later, he was seen walking around Beverly Hills without any problem with Kristen Cavaleri, who was his wife at the time. So, that was his biggest offense. By the way,

I love the fact that you're celebrating the Bears season since they're beating up on one in five teams. They're not actually beating anyone all that good recently. But he did put up five TDs in a row, so I guess that's good. We do have the toughest schedule in the NFL coming up the rest of the season. So fingers crossed. I don't think it's going to work out. But that's just me.

I'm just assuming. But thanks, man, as always for jumping on, for being a part of the show with us. Where can people find you? Where can they check out your show? Anywhere you get your podcast, the name of the podcast is legal, faceoff, or also on WG. Dan.com. We are taping our next episode next week, and we're all over social media. Perfect. Thanks so much. Quick break. A lot more. This is Craig Collins filling in on the Dana

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Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Dana is back after the weekend. You can find her everywhere, by the way, D-Lash, Dana-Lash radio on X, on Twitter, all kinds of places. All right. The biggest news story today is probably the Israeli successful operation,

whatever you want to call it, successfully removing the leader of Hamas from planet Earth. This is something that even our president, President Biden, was capable of saying positive things about Israel on, even though that side of the aisle has had a very weird relationship, with one of our biggest allies in that area for quite some time now, mostly because of young protesters who sound anti-Semitic. But here's a little bit of what President Biden said today about the value of this success by the Israeli military.

The governor of Hamas represents a moment of justice. He had the blood of Americans and Israelis, Palestinians, and Germans, and so many others on his hands. I told the Prime Minister of Israel yesterday, Let's also make this moment an opportunity to seek a path to peace, a better future in Gaza without Hamas. And I look forward discussing Iran. Olova and I spoke the morning after Iran launched 200 ballistic missiles at Israel. Yeah, already he's kind of losing it with where he's going on this.

It seems like it's going to be a stumble and stutter sort of thing there from that point on. But yes, it is a moment of justice. And yes, it is a moment that potentially gets a sort of. closer to peace in that area. Not for sure because Hamas has remained defiant and said they will keep fighting. But there is just one thing I wanted to say about this in all honesty. And I know we're supposed to be getting to a quick five, so I promise I'll do that immediately after this. But the thing that matters more than any of this to me, at least as far as the value of this story is concerned, is that President Biden will hopefully now be willing to admit, although I doubt it, that Israel

was right all along for its desire to keep fighting, to refuse to stop fighting, and to go as far as they went to eventually get to this point of removing this individual from our planet. But let's try really quick if we can. There's a couple minutes left. I know it's a jarring transition, but with the guest early on in this half hour, I wanted to make sure that I got to that because it is big and we are going to talk about it more throughout the show today. Let's try to do a real, real quick, quick five if we can.

And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick 5. All right. There we go. We're trying to get this done. Google to block election ads after polls close on Election Day. That was an interesting thing for me. But not really that bad of a thing, because the election should probably be over after Election Day. Although we're probably not going to be told who won or what the results are, all that stuff for quite some times. That's one.

A standing desk does not reduce the risk of stroke or heart failure. That's according to a brand new study as well out there. I found that fascinating because anybody who's... say proud, way too proud, that they have the standing desk or any version of exercise equipment inside the office has now been dealt to blow as to how valuable that actually is for them, how important it is, and how much you can continue to make fun of them if you want to. That is apparently out there now proved by science. Diablo Wind in California could spark fires, lead to power shutdowns of 30,000 people.

I just reacted to the name Diablo Wind, because that's never a good thing. It can't possibly be a good thing. There's a lot of fart jokes I feel like I could make, but I won't. I will resist said fart jokes today on this show. But I definitely think that I'm aware of several different versions of Diablo Wind. Other things out there, a Brazilian woman became a cop to avenge her father's killing, arrested her killer, his killer, 25 years later. This story's amazing.

If you have a few minutes in your day and you want to read something out there, the person who did this, the human being that's like, you know what, I care about the loss of my loved one more than I think anybody working in the police department that investigated this cares. So I'm never going to give up on this. And I'm going to dedicate my life to doing not only good work as a cop, but good work solving this unsolved mystery. Success on both. Not only is she a significant powerful cop now. She's also someone who cracked the case that people didn't think they'd see her crack. So well done her. Well done this human. I used to check it out.

I'm struggling to try to say her name correctly, but Sylvia de Dios is her last name. I know that for sure. Her first name is Lane. I'm not sure if I got that right. And I don't want to make her mad, actually. In all honesty, if she hears that I mispronounced her name, I immediately apologize.

Because she seems like a badass. That's for sure. Just nine years in the police department before she actually cracked the case of her father. All right, we got to take a break. A lot coming up, as I said. Greg Collins filling in on the Dana show. right here all day Friday.

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But he's a lot of places that you'd think that Democrats would be. And yet he did take shots at Harris not being at the Al Smith charity event, an event that raises money for Catholic charities in New York City. That's full of a lot of individuals that probably would vote for Harris and not for Trump. maybe up until she stiffed him that night. Before I get to, I just want to praise him, before I get to anything else, I might as well play the top five Trump jokes of the evening. Because I do think they're all well done.

There's one where he references people who wrote it for him. I don't even think it's actually in the audio that I have. The meanest one, the one he calls nasty, seems to be one that he didn't himself write, which means maybe he didn't write most of these jokes. But I also kind of wonder if that joke didn't go over as well as the others did, if potentially he did write some of this material and he just knew to blame somebody else in that moment. I'm not sure, I don't know,

but these are genuinely very funny things he said in front of a room that's mostly hostile to him, which even more, for anyone that wants to give credit unjustly to Kamala Harris for doing an interview with Fox News, what this is that I'm about to play took a lot

more of, you know what. I used to think the Democrats were crazy for saying that men have periods, but then I met Tim Walts. Well, I'd better wrap up because Mayor Adams told me earlier that I needed to make this one very quick, especially the city has reserved this room for a large group of illegal aliens coming in from Texas. There's a group called White Dudes for Harris. Have you seen this? White dudes for Harris. Do anybody know? Are some of you here? White dudes for that doesn't sound like it. But I'm not worried about them at all because they're wives and their...

Wives lovers are all voting for me. Oh, yeah, hold on. I want to stop it right there. I got two more that probably are the best jokes of the night. But that joke, their wives' lovers are voting for me, shot. Not only is a popular joke in social media, but it made Jim Gaffigan's wife laugh hard. She thought that was very funny sitting right next to the podium where Trump is speaking.

I thought that was interesting, that the comedian's wife sitting in the group of people that you can see on stage a really, really enjoyed a joke that I'm sure a lot of mainstream media would want to attack and tell him he's a horrible person for making such a dirty, awful joke. Continue, sir. Your issue in this race is child care and Kamala has put forward a concept of a plan. A lot of people don't like it. The only piece of advice I would have for her and the event that she wins would be not to let

her husband Doug anywhere near the nannies. Oh. Wow. That's a nasty one. Chuck Schumer is here looking very glum. This is it looks to dumb. It looks glum. But look on the bright side, Chuck,

considering how woke your party has become. If Kamala loses, you still have a chance to become the first woman president. These are all genuinely very funny jokes. And in all honesty, anyone who can't see the humor of Donald Trump hates him a lot. because no matter how much you can dislike a guy, if they say something funny, you should at least acknowledge that it's funny, I would think. But a lot of people do struggle to do that. As far as Gaffigan goes, and he is a professional comedian, I did somewhat wind up being more surprised by his jokes than by the ones that Trump told, because again, Gaffigan is no fan of Republicans or typically Trump specifically. And yet, I think his humor, if you see it on social, media, if it goes viral anywhere, is going to be as harmful to Harris as the decision not to show up was. But here is one of those moments. Has been referred to as the Catholic Met Gala.

22% of Americans identify as Catholic. Catholics will be a key demographic in every battleground state. I'm sorry, why is Vice President Harris not here? Why isn't she here? Consider this. This is a room full of Catholics and Jews in New York City. This is a layup for the Democratic nominee. I mean, in her defense, I mean, she did find time to appear on DeVue, Howard Stern, Colbert,

and the longtime staple of campaigning. The Call Her Daddy podcast. That's a great joke. That's an excellent joke, too. Yes, she did take time to show up on the Call Her Daddy podcast. Also have her campaign destroyed by Brett Baer on Fox News and not make it to this event in New York, an event that a whole lot of politicians go to all the time. If I were actually to give some sort of serious take and why I don't think you see Harris an event like this,

it's actually because I don't think she has that side in her that you need to have. have in order to make jokes like this or tolerate jokes like this at your expense. She does seem angrier after Brett Baer's conversation. I know that's racist to say or sexist to say or something to say. I can't remember which one it is. But she genuinely does not seem very happy with a lot of what's going on. And I think it's really interesting because there's a couple moments I can kind of point to to demonstrate why I think this is true.

One of the most valuable ones is probably just. the way that she's handling herself at her own events, because there is some oddness to how some of this is going now just the other day, I think, that she was at an event in Wisconsin, one of her, you know, rallies. And she seemed to take a lot of joy in making fun of some of the people that were trying to interrupt and protest her at her event. You know, this is the kind of behavior that people attack all the time in Trump. But I guess when Harris does it, it's okay. It's fine. It's something good, but she just seems angrier. Here we go. Donald Trump, hand-selected three members of the United States Supreme Court with the intention that they would undo the protections of Roe v. Wade,

and they did as he intended. Oh, you guys are at the wrong rally. She is smiling and waving at people that are protesting her about abortion and the difference of opinion they have with abortion rights and kind of thrilled as the crowd turns on these people. Now, granted, I've seen Trump joke with people that are showing up to protest him at his events. So I'm not saying she can't do this sort of thing. I'm not trying to shame her. I don't want to think that, although I guess I wouldn't care what you think. But in all honesty, I just thought it was interesting that this type of person is coming out more often now.

And actually, it reminded me of something from just a few days ago. And another great producer who's a part of the show who helped me remember this. but there was something from the Dan Lebitard show of all places where Doug M. Hoff described what it was like finding out that his wife was going to be running for the role of president and that Biden was stepping down. He was in a spin class. And apparently during said spin class, he didn't answer his phone and he was surprised at the messages he got from that same individual up on that stage, getting mad at protesters at a rally. or the person who was shaking and yelling during her conversation with Brett Baer. There is another side to Kamala Harris, vice presidential candidate, and SNL describes her as the fun aunt. That is not fun at all.

Here, let's let Doug M. Hoff. Oh, by the way, paragon of masculinity, according to some people, and not me, describe what it's like to miss a few phone calls from the misses. You said that communication is key, but she couldn't communicate with you immediately to tell you that Joe Biden had stepped down, correct? You were busy in spin class, right? That was right. So it was, I was in L.A. It was during that weekend when all the planes were down

because of the software glitch, so I had to spend an extra day in L.A. I decided to go to a cycling class with some friends, and it was an hour hour class, and we were just chit-chat, and I had my phone in the Secret Service car, so I didn't have my phone. And then, And my friend's partner just showed me his phone with the letter from President Biden. And I'm like, got to go. And it ran into the car. And there was my phone. Literally like you could feel the steam seven or eight messages all with, you know,

where are you? Call Kamala, call Kamala. And it was a one minute or less conversation. Okay. Which started with, where the F were you? I need you right now. And basically get to work. That is insane.

The husband of the vice president who is trying to become our president who says she's a very nice, kind person. And anytime you say anything about her maybe not being a nice and kind person, well, you're a sexist for saying something horrible because a strong woman equals a mean woman equals sexism, I guess. I don't know. But the reality is that Kamala Harris has been absolutely followed around by the idea that she treats her staff like crap. There's tons of members of her staff that have come out and said how bad it is to work with her, either off the record or on the record, how mean she can be, all this stuff. It's Ellen DeGeneres-esque in some of those discussions. Then you have her getting mad and smiling on stage.

You actually have the guy from yesterday that I played audio of wrongfully convicted of murder in California when it's Kamala Harris's job to go after people that she thinks harmed someone else. and she's laughing in the courtroom as he's being sentenced to years in prison, only to get millions of dollars later from a settlement when they prove that he's innocent. That's the human being that exists here, the one that's telling you that Donald Trump is a meany and a terrible person, and she's nice and you have to vote for her based on her temperament and her character, more so than any of her policies that she won't tell you about,

and she's calling her husband eight times and talking to him for one minute and cursing him out. That's his own words. He's the one who told the story. This isn't me making it up. It's just interesting because, no, you don't have to be nice. If you're a lady, you don't have to be nice. If you're a guy, you don't have to be nice no matter who you are. I don't care.

But if you're mean, we can also call out that you're a jerk, no matter what sex you are as well. Both sides should be equally true in all honesty. And I feel like a lot of that's going to be, how dare you, sir, say that about this person. How dare you? You can also be strong and not mean, by the way, or strong and not a, you know, know whatever that B word would be. You can do that. I don't really care which one you do,

but I don't think you should sell your character if behind the scenes you might be a complete load of crap as far as a human being goes. But anyway, we'll take a break. We'll talk about some other things. There's a lot to get to today that's not Kamala, not Trump, although Trump was, again, admittedly, in my opinion, hilarious

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or wherever you get your podcast. That's right. This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in a D-Lash or Dana Lash Radio. Great ways to stay connected to her on Twitter, on X. I'm a Yankee fan. I've been a Yankee fan my whole life. I was last night a good baseball game. Sure. Was it fun for me? It was not.

Yankees a strike away. Thomas drills one in the deep. Center field judge is on the run he looks up it's off the top of the 19 foot wall tying run will come to the plate once again oh big Christmas has tied it John Kinsey no hell the biggest swing of his life two outs bottom of the 10th fry deep drive left field fries watching it is a walk-off Home run. Bo.

David Frye. Lights up the Cleveland night. I do like the one line from the broadcaster saying the biggest home run of his life, 23-year-old Noel, a big Christmas. Certainly a person that will remember that hit. And honestly, is a person that vividly remembers the Yankees' tying games late in the 2001 World Series. Yeah, home runs, eighth-night inning, one strike away, two out, one guy on, all that stuff.

That's the kind of thing you pretend to do in your backyard when you're playing baseball by yourself or maybe with a few friends. That is not the kind of thing that a lot of people actually get to live. That was a really good game. If you aren't watching the MLB postseason, you probably should be. And granted, at least the ALCS, the NL has been a bunch of blowouts for the most part. One Mets win and a whole bunch of getting beat up on. And the Dodgers are one game away from the World Series now. I would assume that it's a safe bet to say they're fairly likely to get there.

We'll see who they wind up playing. If the Yankees win tonight, hopefully that means they're very likely to get there too. I always say that with caution, though, because when I watch Big Poppy and Derek Jeter and David Ortiz, or excuse me, and A-Rod, Alex Rodriguez all talk after these games, I keep thinking about 2004. And how much that was awful for the Yankees to wind up losing after being up three games to nothing in that series in the ALCS for the Red Sox to go on and win the World Series. Yes, I'm a Yankee fan. Yes, I'm talking about baseball, maybe more than you expected. I can't help it.

I don't know. But it was, it wasn't entertaining game. I actually didn't watch all of it. On television, I had it muted on my cell phone as I was doing something else last night. So that was a part of it being uniquely terrible for me. And this is about me now, people. This is how I want this to go because I couldn't even really react to it. I was busy doing something else that I had to pay attention to.

So I can only watch in sadness as I'm watching balls get, you know, crushed and just absolutely, you know, a last minute version of, Because the Yankees would have gone up 3-0, and that would have hopefully been the end of that series, and now it's not, and one strike out away. Anyway, all right, I'll move on because I'm getting mad. There's one other story. I don't know if I have enough time to talk about it here,

so let's tease it, and we'll talk about it later, involving a Massachusetts restaurant. The restaurant wound up getting all kinds of violent threats, people saying that they're going to come and, you know, tear the place apart, so they had to close for a couple days. All of this is tied to a museum in the area, the American Heritage Museum, World War II reenactment event that happened and people who were wearing costumes that you would

wear during a World War II reenactment event while dining out at the restaurant. This is a messy, messy story. And as I said, I won't really get into it much here. But I do think it's kind of interesting because part of me wants to tell you, and we'll probably do this in a little bit, that this is similar to showing up at, say, a play or some sort of other theater event and getting mad that people are wearing costumes that are relevant to whatever the play or theater event is they're putting on. That's what the reenactment stuff is. And yes, these people then wander out, I guess, close by the museum and do other stuff. Maybe that makes us uncomfortable in the world we live in. But it's a weird target for the anger, I guess is all I'd say. But that coming up and more

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including a lot of politicians. Trump was there. Also, a lot of people that don't like Trump were there. But for some reason, Harris didn't go. She did, however, release a statement in reaction to what Trump said and did at the Al Smith dinner, which is very odd. The whole point of it is to make fun of everyone, yourself and other people. That's the whole, everyone knows what that event is, at least in the world of politics. So it's not surprising that the event went the way it did, and it seemed that people laughed at a lot of the things that Trump said, but Harris obviously cannot take a joke at all, apparently.

So here's her statement on this. This is from the Harris Wall's rapid response team, which I didn't know they had one. Well, of course. Donald Trump struggled to read scripted notes written by his handlers, repeatedly complaining that he couldn't use a teleprompter. He stumbled over his words and lashed out when the crowd wouldn't laugh with him. That's insane. The rare moment when he was off script, he went on long incomprehensible rambles, reminding Americans how unstable he's become. And of course, he made it all about himself.

He may refuse to release his medical records. Why are they trying to do this? But every day he makes it clear to the American people that he is not up to the job. You know what I actually noticed in the conversation that happened last night as pro or whatever you want to call it, Trump as it might be, is how good he was at being on a stage and speaking and making jokes and reacting to a crowd? That's not something that you can do if you're mentally impaired like Biden is. So it actually was a really interesting demonstration of how someone in a similar age range to our president can actually function much better in a public setting like that in and of itself.

By the way, it wasn't just Kamala Harris and her team that needed to release a statement on this. Al Sharpton was also deeply offended, which probably means he did a good job. Those of us that have known and dealt with Donald Trump pro and calling for years, that he is really, in many ways, not the Donald Trump that we fought or that we dealt with. No energy there, no sound bites that makes sense. he's lost it. And I think that it's almost like pushing an old boxer back in the ring that you know he can't fight, but just tell him to hold on to the 10th round. And they're trying to make him hold on, and he just doesn't have it. He's sitting in the stool saying, I don't want to go back out there. I mean, last night, his appearance at the Alfredi Smith dinner was ridiculous. It was offensive, and it was way off the mark. And I think that... Are he serious? He doesn't have it. He's lost it. He's not creating any sound. bites anymore. By the way, actually, you know what? I'll play one more anti-Trump thing that's out there. And then we'll play some examples of what actually happened the other night that's all

over social media. But this is hilarious to me too. Mark Cuban pops up on TV last night, I guess counter-programming, whatever else you might be paying attention out there, although he was on CNN. Who knows how many people even saw this? And he says that the big reason why the administration, the Biden-Harris administration failed at the border is they cared too much Their hearts were too big. This is also insane. This is the kind of thing where you're told that the people that you have to support

have made mistakes, and your brain rejects the idea that it could be their fault at all. That or, I don't know, you're desperate to come up with some sort of explanation that makes sense. I love that he prefaces it, though, with this isn't from the campaign itself. Which makes me wonder, is a lot of the other stuff you say, actually stuff the campaign has told you to say,

why would you make sure we understand when you're reacting to the border that this isn't campaign speak that you're using. Here's my opinion. I'm not speaking for the campaign with this. I thought their hearts were too big when Joe came into office, that they didn't know how many people would cross the border, and it got away from them. But they figured it out. They learned.

And what did they do? He put together an executive order, and now the number of border crossings is down to where they were into Trump, maybe a little lower. She says she's going to sign the border bill, which is very clear where she stands now. But let me tell you, the most important thing that has not been discussed, Donald Trump and Kamala both have said when it comes to illegals that are in the country that have violated the law or criminals, they're going to deport them.

Donald Trump hasn't said what he's going to do to deport anybody else. He said he's going to deport everybody, actually. I think that Donald Trump said if you're here illegally, he would like to deport you. And Harris has very little that she says about any of this, even that statement about deporting people who've committed crimes. Their actions don't match their words. But I think it's fascinating that he says they just care too much. their hearts were too big. They had no idea that if they basically told the world that the border was open,

that a whole bunch of people would show up and cross the border into our country. That's ludicrous to say that. And actually, Harris did go on television and went to a few countries in Central America, wagged her finger and said the borders closed, don't show up. And then it wasn't closed. And people did show up and they didn't do anything else about that. So I thought that was interesting. But here, let's get to some of the things that Trump actually said that apparently Al Sharpton thought were both terrible

and demonstrations of how broken his brain is, and also just in general, things that made him deeply, deeply offended. There was this moment, early on in Trump speaking, when he congratulated Gaffigan, Jim Gaffigan, the comedian for doing a good job on stage, and then also was honest about the amount of jokes he's going to make about himself.

They give you one, but not me. How about that one? Yeah, and you did a good job. Tradition halls that I'm supposed to tell a few self-debt, deprecating jokes this evening. So here it goes. Nope. I've got nothing. There's nothing to say. I guess I just don't see the point of taking shots at myself when other people have been

shooting at me for a hell of a long time. And they shoot at you know, they say about presidents. They say that Andrew, actually I got to stop it right there. There's something interesting about that. People have been shooting at me for a hell of a hell of of a long time. Of course, a lot of people will think that he might be referencing someone actually trying to kill him, which has now happened twice, one of which there were actual shots fired and he was hit with one, which of course you know about. Or it might just be the years and years of being targeted with any kind of version of this is the worst, the most horrible, terrible person to ever run for the office of president and someone who is essentially a threat to democracy

itself. I wonder if it is more the latter than the former, though. I wonder if he wasn't trying to take a veiled shot at literally being shot at, because I do see something interesting happen on the faces of the crowd of the people you can see in the camera, especially Jim Gaffigan, who he's just laughing with and enjoying an interaction back and forth with, and Trump is saying you did a good job, you were funny on stage. I thought that was interesting. As soon as the reference of shot comes up, a lot of those faces change. The only one who doesn't seem to change all that much is Chuck Schumer, which is interesting to me. But it is something that Trump could be talking about more. He could be discussing this more. And mainstream media would be obsessed about it is something I keep saying if this had happened to a Democrat.

I can't fathom, and I just mean this honestly, and I know I've said this before, but I'll say it again. I can't fathom someone almost being killed in our country within the political system, especially someone to the role of running for the office of president, responding to that by standing up and putting your fist in the air and saying, fight without wanting to be rushed off the stage, even though you are removed and taken out of that environment, and not win an election. I mean that just simply on its own face.

I know that it's still a contested election. I know that any poll out there says that anybody could still potentially win, although a lot of swing states are now leaning toward Trump. But if it weren't Donald Trump, if it were any other politician, especially a Democratic one who did that, the heroes welcome everywhere you went for the rest of your life, I would assume, would be a byproduct of that version of that moment. And yet it's not.

For whatever reason with Trump, it's not so much so that at an event that's meant to be fun and light and whatever, you make maybe a veiled reference to people trying to kill you, and you quiet the crowd for a few seconds and turn a lot of faces down and away. I wonder what that is. I genuinely ask that question without trying to. come up with my own answer. But I wonder what that is, is that shame? Are there people who feel like, okay, we've gone too far, we've said too much, and we have caused people to want to kill this guy, or is it something else? I don't know. And freedom of speech, of course, makes me a supporter of your

right to say whatever you want to say, and certainly everyone's right to say whatever they want to say. And Trump is not shy himself in saying negative things about his opponent. But nonetheless, I wonder truthfully in that environment with those types of individuals that, that many people said are overwhelmingly on a certain side of the political aisle, why that would be the moment that caused the most stun or the quietest reaction and what that would actually be, because it was interesting to watch it happen. By the way, one other thing, I'll just play this, and then I promise we'll move on to sillier stuff on a Friday, lighter stuff on a Friday. But Trump also referenced how difficult it was to be in this environment with this crowd,

not that he showed it very much, because a lot of people in this room, not a fan of him, and he's up there cracking jokes and doing whatever he's doing for however many minutes he's doing it. By the way, Melania Trump's sitting right there off to his side for people who wonder where she's been throughout his campaign. But here we go. Actually thought about not doing jokes tonight. I was going to come out here and say, listen, our country is doing very badly. This is not about jokes. And then some person said, you have to do jokes.

I said, I don't want to. There's nothing funny about what's happening to our country. And I actually meant that I was going to do that. but they convinced me to say some of the things I said tonight. I don't know if they were funny or not, but, you think this is easy standing up here and doing this? In front of half a room that hates my guts and the other half loves me? Half of us love me.

Well, maybe it's, I think 75% love me. By the way, I do really love, and I know this is radio, so you can't see it. Melania Trump's reaction to some of this crowd hates me. she's smiling real big. She's laughing at that moment because that is the most disparaging comment Trump made about himself there, knowing factually that there are people in that audience that don't just dislike him.

They hate him to their core. And they'll talk about it probably shortly after that event was over. So I thought that was interesting that the misses was laughing. And then how he said, well, but 75%, maybe not 50, actually do you like me. I like that she was entertained by that too. A dementia Don, by the way, is trending on social media on Twitter on X.

I think that's mostly because of him pausing the other day while music was playing at a event that he was doing at a rally. What I think is really interesting about that, just quickly, is that a whole bunch of media is not telling you that people were literally passing out and calling for doctors. And so standing for as long as he did was partially a response to what he was seeing that's not on camera, which is people that are struggling and getting medical help

at an event that he's at. I thought that was interesting. You're not going to hear about that a lot of places, That is true. You can decide to look it up yourself if you'd like. All right. We'll take a break. A lot coming up. Craig Collins filling in on the Dana Show. Hillsdale College, an educational institution that was founded to offer this type of education needed to preserve civil and religious liberties. And that's the mission that they are holding true to still today. And over at Hillsdale, you don't have to go to their campus in Southern Michigan to take advantage of all the things that they offer. They have all kinds of free resources, whether it's their education. podcasts, whether it is their free speech digest and primus. They're also offering free pocket constitutions. You get it for free. They send it to you for free. You pay nothing. You're not having

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crazy stories out there in the world. One of them, I thought this was interesting. California police struggled to, struggled with, excuse me, an unusable Tesla patrol car after going green. Apparently some of the cars are dying for reasons.

They don't know. They've diminished safety standards in the area. Community seems worried. Also, cars with insanely expensive repair bills. If they do break down, way to go, California. You've now made it so police can't even get around if they need to after Villafis.

flying them entirely just a short time ago. So this is great. This is fantastic. This is going to help you on a lot. Another quick five story. Sir Richard Branson is to pilot the first crude flight of $125,000 apiece space balloon flights. This is with a cocktail service and Wi-Fi, which I kind of thought was hilarious. Richard Branson, of course, famous for going to space on his own already, doing all kinds

things, but he's going to take a hydrogen balloon with eight passengers, 20 miles above Earth. They get to hang out with the business tycoon and get drunk. I don't know how drunk you'd get if you were flying in a hot air balloon in space or just barely into space, but I would get very, very drunk. That would be my goal in that moment because it was already such an expensive trip. I'm going to make it worth it, darn it. I'm going to do everything I can to make sure that I get my money's worth. And then also the fact that part of that is just ridiculous that it exists in our society.

in which we live. Another thing I saw, billions of gallons of water are needed to refill a lake. This is in Wichita. The city said that they're really struggling to figure out how to do this on their own. It's 25.9 billion gallons of water. I don't think you should do it. This is just me personally, probably not the right answer. Probably not the right decision. But I just let it go. I just let that lake not have the amount of water you want to fill it up with because it does feel weird to leave like the hose in the lake and just wait for it to get to the point where it's gotten to those billions of gallons. That's a lot of hoses. So I would say move on from that situation, but that's me. I'm sure everybody else is not going to pay attention to that.

They're going to tell me, for some reason, my take is horrible. There's some value in whatever they're doing. It just seems oddly, overly challenging. That's how I wanted to say that. One last one as far as Quick Five, a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution is up for auction, is expected to sell for millions of dollars. Even as a whole lot of people now say that they hate the Constitution, even the New York Times has articles about how the Constitution is dated, which is hilarious, and no longer needs to be followed in every sense of what we'd like to follow it in. But hey, some people still like it, and they'd like to buy it for quite a bit of money.

I think that some of that actual money spent at that auction is going to go to disaster relief in North Carolina, et cetera, because of Hurricane Helene, which is also odd. I will say that the fact that FEMA and everyone else is failing, and the amount of government support for places like North Carolina is a topic of news constantly, and then you have the Constitution selling at an auction and being something that could fundraise to help. It's just odd. That almost would be the kind of thing that you feel like Alanis Morissette would sing about in some sort of song that was mistitled about irony.

But anyway, those are some of the top five stories out there, quite a bit to get to when we come back, some of the things hopefully very entertaining for you and for me, although a lot of it just Groundhog Day more of the same in the world of politics. But I did think Trump was uniquely funny at the Al Smith dinner. So we'll probably play some clips of that. And then also after this, there is another reaction in the Kamala Harris stories out there in the world, including a very shocking one that you'll have to hear right after this.

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insightful analysis. Whenever you want, straight to you on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. This is the Dana Show, D-Lash or Dana Lash Radio. two great ways to stay connected to her on social media, on X, other things out there. I can't help but keep going back to some of the audio of the fancy dinner last night, the Al Smith dinner,

a event in the world of politics that a lot of people typically attend. Kamala Harris, for some reason, chose to skip it, which is an odd move in New York City, a place filled with a lot of people who would probably be voting for her, in all honesty. Look at the way they tried Trump in a Manhattan courtroom,

but she chose not to go and Trump chose to be there. Now, Jim Gaffigan, the comedian, professional comedian, who essentially hosted this event, made some pretty viral jokes himself and just a bit of a whatever you want to call this, a preface or a statement before we planning this audio. He's not pro-Trump. He's not a MAGA supporter. He's not a guy that has said kind things about Trump on social media. None of that. But he is a professional comedian seeing an opportunity to make valuable jokes. So I thought that was even more interesting.

Literally, he's playing Tim Walls and S&L right now. So I think that he couldn't be more potentially on the left as far as a comedian goes, standing up on the stage than he is. And yet, here's some of what he said. The Democrats have been telling us Trump, Trump's re-election is a threat to democracy. In fact, they were so concerned of this threat, they staged a coup, ousted their democratically elected incumbent, and installed Kamala Harris. In other words, all her dreams have come true. I find that really, really interesting that he would make that joke and silence most of the crowd. Again, maybe this is because people were shocked at the amount of shots he was taking at Harris.

He took shots at Trump. He took shots about the, you know, Billy whatever tape and everything else out there that he didn't need to discuss, I guess, but had to discuss the Billy Bush tape. I don't know why I blanked in his last name for a second. The Access Hollywood tape, another way to say it. which is fine. Like that's, that feels old as far as humor goes. I feel like you could make jokes about more recent stuff if you want to, even if it's at Trump's expense. But the stuff with Harris and Biden is obviously topical because it all just happened a little while ago. Here's another one of those jokes. The media has begun discussing the phenomena of secret Trump voters. I don't know if you've

heard about this. People who publicly say they would never vote for Trump, but then when they go in the voting booth, they do. It's a small group. they're called the Biden family. That's a great joke. Let's be honest. This is a lot of the stuff that's out there as far as viral audio right now in the world of public, or excuse me, a political discussion. And so it's pretty good. There was one other Trump one that I haven't played yet that I thought was pretty amusing. This is him making a joke about odd videos that Gretchen Whitmer has been putting up on social media,

including ones where members, I think, of her staff. Younger people are like kneeling and she's feeding them. I don't know exactly what that is. It might be a TikTok trend that I'm not familiar with or you are or not familiar with. It's a weird decision to make as far as a politician goes to shoot a video like that in or out of whatever context they're supposed to be. But Trump even made fun of that. All polls are indicating I'm leading big with a Catholic vote, as I should be, as I should be. But I don't think Kamala has given up yet.

She hasn't instead of attending tonight. She's in Michigan receiving communion. from Gretchen Whitmer. That also made a lot of people laugh, including Gaffigan and his wife, the professional comedian, because it was weird. Some of those videos,

some of those things are weird. All right, that's enough of the sillier, but also political things out there today. By the way, Kamala Harris' team has issued a response to the joke dinner in which they said they thought

that Trump embarrassed himself and was also, of course, offensive or whatever else. A big, big story out there beyond the world of politics is what happened in Israel or happen, I guess, for the Israeli army. They have removed the leader of Hamas.

This is something that apparently they are saying happened somewhat by accident, meaning they found the location of this individual because they were in an area already and doing something as far as their military is concerned already and locating him then became a stroke of luck, which then allowed them to take him out. What's valuable about this,

and I can play certain audio of some of this conversation. But what's truly valuable to me about this story is Israel stood up, whether you thought they were right or wrong in doing it, whoever I'm talking to right now on the air in listening to this, they stood up against the calls for them to stop trying to remove Hamas from this planet when a whole lot of the world was telling them what they were doing needed to be rethought. Because of their unwillingness to stop their campaign in fighting, they disabled the ability for Iran to use proxy sources, proxy forces like Hamas, of course, Hezbollah to put them in a more dangerous situation once Iran decided to very publicly attack them as well. This was already

because they had been weakened Iran by what Israel was doing. But now they're at a position where they've removed the leader of Hamas. Hamas still says they're going to keep trying to wage this conflict, wage this war. But it is interesting to me because the most important part of it is that had they listened, this wouldn't have happened. This person would still be alive. So for whatever you say, pro or negative, based on what you think happened in the Middle East and whether or not Hamas is more to blame than some want them to be to blame for putting citizens in harm's way, essentially wanting to use their own people as a human shield, all the disgusting this in which those conversations can go. This giant success is Israel's, and mostly Israel's

alone, even as the United States has said that we are happy in what we've seen, and we hope that it winds up triggering a potential peace agreement between all sides in the Middle East. But this is not something that even though we have been helping them and sending the money, that we truly deserve the kind of, you know, I don't know if you call it credit, but the kind of we're proud to have been a part of helping you achieve this goal. that normally would have existed between the United States and Israel in the past, based on the weird version of our current relationship. But here's a little bit of what they said on the Today Show about this. Now to what could be a major turning point in the Middle East, as we

learn more this morning about Israel's killing of that top leader of Hamas, the architect of the October 7th attack, raising hopes this morning that it could kickstart new talks towards a ceasefire deal and a hostage release deal. NBC's Aaron McLaughen is in Tel Aviv. for us. Aaron, good morning. Laura, good morning. Yaya Sinwar was often referred to by the Israeli military as a dead man walking. They've been hunting for him for over a year. But according to the Israeli military, in the end, they found him by chance, part of a routine military operation in southern Gaza. You know what's really interesting about this too is this happens often. The United States has benefited from somewhat by happenstance discovering people that are our

enemies that we want to take out as well. This is not something that always, or at least the way they discuss it, maybe that's not true. Maybe a part of this is much less happenstance than we know. But often this is part of the narrative that they were in the right place at the right time and had the ability to take the shot they needed to take. And that only happens if you're still proactively engaging in combat, if you're still waging a fight or defending your or whatever you want to call it that Israel was doing. So I do just find this tremendously interesting and important as far as any follow-up conversations go, maybe for years to come as to whether or not Israel did the right thing or didn't do the right

thing as protesting and all kinds of things broke out here in our country and other places. And there were calls for, you know, the way that Israel was fighting that war to stop. What did they prevent by moving forward? You know, actually, I'll tell you a story. this is crazy and I don't know how to articulate this, you know, any differently. And there's things that I probably will have to not say because it's not my story to tell. But I was talking to a veteran friend of mine very recently about the experience of war, the experience of fighting in general.

And actually specifically about unique things that happen in more recent combat like the Iraqi freedom or any of those other, you know, recent wars that we've waged, the fight, the long, long fought, you know, a conflict in Afghanistan that ended as horribly as it did based on the decisions

of our current president. But one of the discussions was about a sniper noticing a suicide bomber. And it is a real story. So the sniper looks in the scope and sees someone who is about to do something horrible,

someone who might not even be willingly doing something horrible, but who is now in a situation where they are a walking bomb. And the reason I thought about this, is the reference there to a dead man walking and how our military has to take action to protect lives to prevent this individual, whoever they are, from being someone that can hurt other people. So you have to take a shot. And when I heard this story, when I thought about the

ramifications of that, the aftermath of someone having lived through that, maybe multiple times within our military, within our war, within our, you know, fighting to protect our country or protect our civilians, protect our soldiers, because in that moment, this person is tasked with being in a position where they're looking for threats on the rest of our military and then ending them before they can harm our people. It reminded me of Israel. One of the things I started thinking about is for all of the negatives and all of the horrificness of the conflict and any conflict that exists anywhere in the world, if the byproduct is protecting people, if that is the goal, and Israel has stated many, many times, they were not in terms. They were not in

intending to hurt innocent people. They had no interest in doing that. And honestly, and I know this is hard for some people to swallow in a weird way to talk about this, but I've talked about it a lot here in other places. If Hamas was willing to protect its own people and not desired to put them in harm's way because they're cowards, that tunnel system that exists underground in the Gaza Strip would have been a perfect place to allow people to go to hide. And in Ukraine, if there's any sort of conversation about the limited amount of civilian

casualties that has occurred, even as that war has been going on for longer. One of the reasons why is civilians are given access to underground bunkers to hide in, which means that as bombs destroy and level a majority of that country, Ukraine is a much different place than it was just a few years ago because it has been decimated by the war itself and probably will continue to be until that war inevitably ends and ends, however, some of our leaders say they might think it will end. But nonetheless, what actually occurs in the Gaza Strip is much different because Hamas is unwilling, actually even has stated in interviews on multiple occasions, refuses to allow people to get out of harm's way,

hoping that it prevents Israel from continuing to fight their force so they can plan another secret attack on them. That is something that is true. And when I, again, heard from a friend of mine about an experience that he didn't have, but other people he knew in the military did have about how difficult the decisions that you make are, how difficult the things that you sometimes are tasked with having to do are. But at the end of the day, you remind yourself that you are saving lives, that you are protecting people, that you're doing it for the right reasons, and that the individuals who put someone else in harm's way are really at fault for what happens to that person, especially in the story that I was told,

where the person is a walking bomb. that is they're not going to survive no matter what happens, whether someone allows them to walk all the way into a moment where they're going to take more lives or ends the threat before that person gets any closer to other people. It just was fascinating. And the person told me that, honestly, not knowing what we were going to learn today about Israel.

So this story that I heard just recently didn't seem like it was going to be as relevant to my discussions on air today about that war, but I did think about it in those moments, and I do think about it again now. All right, quick break, a lot coming up. Dark as that was, important as that was, I guess, is a topic. I promise we'll try to lighten things up on a Friday here next.

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Florida man. This is the Dana show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrill to be with you. Let's get right to them. The first one doesn't sound like it's a Florida man story. But oh, baby. it is. This is an Australian transportation minister. I think he's outside of Melbourne, who is talking about a railway station flood that occurred during an Olivia Rodriguez concert. Again, none of this sounds like it's Florida man, but don't worry. We'll get to the Florida man part of it. Anyway, here is what it sounds like when a guy is reporting on some news and can't handle some of what he thinks is funny about it in what actually happened. They thought at first it was vandalism. it was not vandalism.

Initial reports were that it was an act of vandalism. I've been advised that Metro have reviewed the CCTV footage and it would appear that an amorous couple in a stairwell this was a spreeklah. No, no, Melbourne Central Station in a stairwell late at night. Police are investigating. In terms of what the disruption caused by it? Well, there was extensive flooding.

There is extensive damage in a stairwell caused by an amorous couple that bumped into a sprinkler. As you guessed it, the people are expected to be from Florida. The suspects in this case, there's been photos released and some people that have responded online. I can't confirm that these people are actually from Florida in the United States, but it appears that that might be the case. So Florida man can damage things even beyond the world of Florida. If he, for some reason, goes to a Olivier Rodrigo concert and winds up being amorous with someone else, I love every part of that story for some reason. That is one Florida story. There are, of course, more. A Florida man was arrested for threatening utility workers because they weren't turning his power on soon enough. This is something that Kenneth Ray Valesco apparently did that got him arrested on Wednesday. He really, really wanted his power on, and he thought the workers were focusing too much on people that are not him. He was pulled over for a traffic stop after this event and arrested without incident because he was

on a whole bunch of cameras. No one was seriously hurt, by the way. He just threatened a lot of people and made things very awkward the entire time. I don't know if that's a good way to go about getting stuff done. I actually know for a fact it's probably not a good way to go about getting stuff done. If you want people to do you a favor, don't threaten them with harm. That's probably not going to make anyone more active and while it gets you arrested.

And then one final one, I do like this one a lot. A Florida man was caught with a stolen vehicle. He was joyriding it throughout parts of Florida because why not? You got the vehicle. It's taken. All these things are happening. Pascoe County Police and a sheriff wound up commenting on the case, though, because it did go viral. 23-year-old kid named Cody had a monkey in the passenger seat with him. No explanation as to why, but he had a monkey as a pet who was riding shotgun. He was trying to be some weird version of speed racer.

I guess I'm not exactly sure. But nonetheless, when you get pulled over speeding in a stolen vehicle and sit next to you, buckled in, which was nice to do. is a monkey. You're probably going to be talked about just a little bit. The guy gave no real answer as to why his monkey pet was with him there. And I think that that monkey has now been surrendered to those who might give it to a better home of some kind or a zoo or something. I'm not really sure.

I think Florida fish and wildlife officers were involved in this. No one seriously hurts. Just an idiot doing idiot things in Florida that now is going to have this follow him around for the rest of his life. Cody will apply for his job for a job 20 years from now after whatever time in jail has been served and he'll still have people find the story of him getting pulled over speeding with a monkey in a stolen car

and that's not going to help him get any jobs. I don't know why I thought about it that way, but I did. I can't wait for someone to Google this again and again again when they meet Cody Heson. All right, quick break, a lot more. Greg Collins filling in on the Dana show. In today's fast-paced world, the mental load on families has become significant.

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This is The Dana Show. My name is Craig Collins filling in. Thrilled to be with you. Dana can be found everywhere on TV, on YouTube, and Rumble on everything. Also, D-Lash and Dana Lash Radio on social media on X is a great way or Twitter to stay connected to her. A couple things. first Cuba, their power is out. I mean all of Cuba, apparently. I love the joke that I was just told coming into this segment by a producer, that when you have a dictatorship, they usually have one thing in control of everything. In this case, a plant went out, a power plant went out, and there is no power. So that's terrible. That's not good. That's just one of several things going on there. Although I guess I will say this, I would be less angry than I typically am. When my power's out and like a block from me, somebody has their power on, if the whole country were down. And in

that's what they're dealing with right now. They're doing the best they can, according to them. I take that with whatever grain of salt you want to get the power back on. But Cuba, Cuba, weird. Cuba is in total darkness. Cuba, I don't know what's happening to me. I'm being taken over by President Biden. All right, another thing I saw out there,

more documents are being unsealed in Jack Smith's January 6th case against Donald Trump. There was a first round of this stuff, some of which mainstream or liberal leaning or whatever kind of media you want to call it, was telling you that it was incredible. incredibly significant. By and large, almost all of it was stuff that people already knew about that case, so it didn't seem all that significant. This even more so, and this is like those types of media outlets saying this as well, Axios has a report on this where they're saying almost all of the information that has been unsealed is stuff that was already widely reported in the news.

Whether you believe it or not, these are the allegations and the potential things that would be used against Trump. I'm sure that he and others will have their own side of an argument for for all of this stuff. But how do you keep denying, or at least attempt to argue, that this isn't intended to be election interference with it coming out now? We're mere weeks away from the actual election, from people. And people have already started voting, of course, via early voting. And actually, kind of surprisingly, a whole lot of conservatives seem to be showing up and voting in a lot of places, just as much so as Democrats are voting in some of these places, which I find fascinating because the messaging has become if you can't stop a system that you don't think is

necessarily legal, meaning doesn't exactly follow the Constitution in every place in which some of this voting happens, then embrace it, then vote the way that you are being told you can vote and vote as many ways as you're being told you can vote. Vote multiple times if that's a right. Of course it's not. But anyway, do whatever you need to do in order to try to help your team win, your side win, Trump says to his followers, make it too big to have them cheat. essentially we are actually seeing a response to that version of campaign a narrative being out there. It seems to be working. But nonetheless, again, to go back to it,

what I think is so interesting beyond just this stuff that's been coming out about Trump and the damaging dumps of information or what you want to call them is how easy it becomes to reposition this discussion and how many Americans just do not seem to care about any of it. Because the more that this comes out and the more that it's been coming out for as long as these sort of things have been happening to Trump now during this campaign season, the more people are just done. And actually, again, talking about it just a little bit ago, off there, we were discussing

how maybe that's the reason there's so many people early voting. You show up at the precinct, you punch your ticket, and then you leave, and you just forget about politics until after November when you find out who won. I don't know if a lot of people can actually do that, but that does sound like a strategy that might work for a lot of us and might benefit a lot of us as far as just your mental day-to-day existence because it does feel like a lot of the same. And maybe that is the reason that I've taken so much joy in playing audio of Trump and even Jim Gaffigan, the stand-up comedian, last night in a black tie event.

I'm sure I'll play more a little bit later on in the show, just because it is so, you know, humorous and it's so less serious than so many other things are out there that are being discussed every day on all of these topics, that is just more fun. I'd be remiss if I didn't at least mention another giant news story before moving on to anything else. Of course, a big, big story out there is that Israel has taken out the leader of Hamas. They said it is in a somewhat lucky set of circumstances that let them know where this person was. They used a drone to end the life of the leader of Hamas, which hopefully is a conduit toward conversations that allow for peace in the Middle East. You do already hear that narrative, though, popping up from some of our dead.

Democratic leaders, Biden among them, saying that this should be, you know, the way in which peace is reached. And that is a choice that two sides of a conflict are going to have to make. And as far as anyone is concerned right now, it appears as though Hamas is as, you know, adamant as ever that they will not stop trying to harm, kill, fight Israel. So it is unlikely that that will have any huge impact, at least right now, certainly it will on the capabilities of Hamas, but any huge impact. on their willingness to say stand down entirely or whatever else is necessary there, releasing of hostages, et cetera, to get further toward any sort of peace deal. And it does even

seem interesting that some of that state, some of those statements being made by Biden or anyone else might actually, to some, be interpreted as pressure, being as much pressure as a Biden can put on anybody, even though it seems like he's barely in office anymore. Um, because, you know, uh, saying immediately out loud that this should cause that is essentially, trying to tell Israel what to do next. And Israel, having not listened the entire time so far, seems to be something that's very much benefited them, even when more of the world than just the United States has been calling for peace there or some sort of stop-gap version of a ceasefire. And I'll play a little bit of Biden's audio. But I just do think it's interesting that if Israel

does continue to hunt and fight and try to remove Hamas, even as more calls for peace might be made in response to this, it's hard to deny that their approach has effectively protected their country from those that threaten it. Here we go. The desert leader of Hamas represents a moment of justice. He had the blood of Americans and Israelis, Palestinians, and Germans and so many others on his hands. I told the Prime Minister of Israel yesterday, let's also make this moment an opportunity to seek a path to peace, a better future in Gaza, without Hamas. And I look forward discussing Iran.

All of and I spoke the morning after Iran launched 200 ballistic missiles at Israel earlier this month. Yeah, and then he's going to trail off there a little bit. Any sort of eloquence from Biden is non-existent for more than a few seconds. But nonetheless, it immediately is there, that pivot and that transition. And I believe that it could be possible. I will say out loud that I think and hope that that winds up being accurate as to what does happen in the Middle East.

but Hamas is adamant that that's not what's going to occur. They're going to keep fighting and fight actually in response to this. All right. Some other things out there, I thought this was interesting as far as other just audio out there in the world. It's a bunch of CNN clips that are reacting to certain here. You know what? Actually, I'll play this one first and then we'll react to it after the fact. Because I think it might be more fun that way for this specific clip.

So here we go. Let's fire this off. There is no proof that tech companies colluded to, do this. This is nonsense and he knows it. Oh. No, I'm sorry. There was a major institutional effort. No, there was absolutely, listen, I have been one of the biggest

critics of tech. This is nonsense. Absolutely nonsense. And when he just sort of discounts all the court cases. Dozens and dozens of them. Was the New York Post thrown off Twitter? They were and then they, Scott, let me try again to explain to you what actually happened. They made a mistake. I know. And I live through it too.

And guess what? And guess what? The New York Post and the story off Twitter. Scott, let's look at her for she's actually done. She's done the work. She's done the work on. Scott, Scott, how dare you? How dare you have an opinion that's different from this woman that's sitting on our stage here that's actually written about these things? Even if she's been proven to be wrong, many of the things you wrote about.

How dare you? No, I'm not insulting you. I don't know why you keep repeating things that aren't true. Did they get thrown off Twitter? They did, and then they said that we made a mistake and they put them right back on it just like CNN does, just like the New York Times. It wasn't after the election. It was during the time, and they switched Jack Dorsey's switch. I think what the issue is, is you think Twitter is the government.

You think Twitter is running things. And there is not this wide collusion, but Jake and Genevance knows that because he's worked in tech. He knows there's no such thing as big tech. There are big tech companies. They do not collude on this issue. That is ridiculous. And here's why it's ridiculous, actually. And I love that this went viral because so much of it is so awesome.

So many big tech companies had the same sensibility, whether they're getting on the phone and chit-chatting with each other or not. It's a close-knit group, as any close-knit group within a industry is. And before Elon Musk bought Twitter, you didn't even hear anyone like Mark Zuckerberg out there saying the things he says now. Zuckerberg says they'll do less to censor political speech

on their platform. I don't know that it's actually true in what's happening on said platform, but they say they're going to do less of it. And that's because an individual got hold of one of the biggest platforms in social media and turned off that switch. And we got to see behind the scenes twice.

One, the Twitter files, which came out and showed us all the different things that occurred, that allowed for government to have a deep influence, a deep reach, almost an arrogant version of an attempt to silence information, whether it's the Hunter Biden laptop that they're talking about there, whether it's the coronavirus information and questioning of certain things that was silenced and now seems to be the consensus among a whole lot of medical people, that those individuals were right, both in the lack of risk for young people and even some of the potential risks for vaccines and whatnot. All of that is much more agreed upon years later,

but was silence then. And so the point being made on CNN is if you correct a mistake you made, it doesn't mean you never made the mistake. And essentially, the argument being made by tech and people like Kara Swisher, who's the podcast host talking about this issue along with a conservative guest on CNN, or at least someone who's supposed to be a conservative guest. The thing that's so interesting to me, the thing that essentially means that, hey, that thing we did wrong didn't happen is if you get it right later. And that's the whole point. The point is to silence for as much time as you can so that things can move forward, people

can forget, and then you go ahead and reshape the narrative and do something different just a little bit later. I was actually talking to an economic expert earlier this week, somewhere else where I do a radio. and one of the biggest things that's come out recently and is tremendously important in another field, job report numbers that have been changed, violent crime numbers that have been changed,

economic numbers that have been rethought, things that essentially get rolled out day one when they get announced, media reacts to them, politicians celebrate these things, we created this many jobs, we have lowered violence by this much, we've done this and this differently,

and then you pay attention to the organizations that put out this information, and a month later, two months later, sometimes longer, oh yeah, we got to change something. We got to quietly try to update those numbers, and they're utterly different. They're shockingly different, actually, when it comes to job numbers or crime data,

in which for a while there was a claim that in 2023, crime numbers went down, and now they're saying crime numbers, in fact, went up, especially violent crime. But you have a debate between two presidential candidates, and you have a fact check from someone who's obviously leaning on one side of the aisle, even though they're not supposed to,

about that exact topic. And many Americans walk away. I can't tell you, here's one last thing I'll say, and then I need to take a break. I can't tell you how many people still believe some of the misinformation of what happened during COVID, and that's what I'm going to call it,

misinformation. They still believe it. And they believe it because they haven't checked in again on any of that data since they were told years ago what someone told them was the truth then, and now those individuals themselves would even admit they were wrong about.

All right, quick break. A little more coming up. Craig Collins filling out on the day in a show. And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick Five. That's right. This is the Quick Five. Andrew Schultz has said that he had a tour stop canceled after he gave a live interview to Donald Trump. That's pretty interesting for the famous comedian.

He actually said in 2016, or earlier on, one of the reasons he probably started voting for Trump in some of these elections was because of the way he was treated. Well, you know, trying to be a comedian making a living. but the most recent instance happened at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, which may push him to vote yet another time for Donald Trump. That is something that Schultz said recently after doing one of what have been several interviews with those types of platforms for both candidates, honestly. Podcasting has not had the kind of success it's had this year as being politically relevant. Call Her Daddy had an interview with Vice President Harris.

They do seem to be targeting both mainstream media and some. ways and then media outlets that they think might have a very specific reach if they're trying to shore up support in those places. Another thing out there that I thought was interesting, a community in Canada has had more meth in its wastewater than in any other city in the entire country. This is in Saskatchewan. What I think is really interesting about this is what it means for people in the area between March of 2022 and May of 2020, 23, excuse me, 2023, the city of Prince Albert had more traces of meth in the water itself than you would like to find anywhere. This is by a wide margin, according to researchers, 2,406 milligrams of meth per thousand people per day,

compared to under 1,000 in most other places. That's not good. This is bad, and this means you should be very careful if you're traveling and drinking any of the water in parts of Canada, apparently. And then finally, and I mentioned this earlier, I thought this was interesting, a World War II reenactor group that went out to eat at a restaurant next to a museum where they were doing a World War II reenactment.

I wound up causing a lot of problems. 14 news, I think in the area in Massachusetts where this happened, reported how the restaurant had to close for several days after threats came in, saying, how dare you let people wearing Nazi outfits eat at your restaurant? The part that's missing in that story, though,

the part that makes it at least, make sense and not people who are just actually being, you know, insane, was that they were reenactors doing a reenactment at a museum nearby. It does feel sometimes, like, however much, there are things that are actually going on in the world that you deserve to be mad at. There's a whole lot of people who want to get mad at anything else they can, and I'm sure this isn't a great look, but in all honesty, if you're doing a reenactment and you need a snack for lunch halfway through, going and eating in your costume, not exactly surprising. I quick break. A little more coming up.

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And honestly, one of the biggest things. And by the way, D. Lash and Dana Lash Radio, great places to stay connected with Dana. X on Twitter. Also, Dana Radio.com. As you heard, is a great way to stay connected to her. One of the biggest conversations today has been the appearance of Trump and the lack of an appearance by Harris at the Al Smith dinner. I'm probably going to play some more audio at the tail end of this of some of the things, some of the jokes that were told there because they are genuinely very good. And Trump even made a joke about who wrote them and not being him, but he delivered them all and some of them are about as, you know, far.

as you'll go or far as many politicians will go to make fun of other people, but effectively delivered. So that's one thing that's coming up in just a little bit. Before I get to that, though, something else I wanted to talk about. I thought this was a pretty interesting out there in the world of, you know, the Harris campaign and some of the latest challenges or things she's facing. A lot of poll numbers are saying things are not going very well for Kamala Harris. They're saying that things are getting worse and worse and worse, actually, and that, you know, many more Americans are discovering exactly who she is as a person and how little they, in fact, support the individual that she is, and not just the person that they were hoping she'd be when

she first took over or essentially kicked Biden into a closet and forced him to stay there as she runs for office. But I do think some of these bigger things are interesting. One of them, she visited Milwaukee for in a closed event to press. She was greeted by pro-Hamas protesters when she went to this event in Milwaukee instead of going to the Al-Smith dinner. This is, of course, something she gets a lot of now, pro-Hamas, pro-Palestine, whatever they call themselves, supporters. And as Israel has a big victory, removing the leader of Hamas from the earth itself, you wind up wondering how many more of those individuals are going to push and try to make something, whatever they can, of, you know,

pressure that is instilled on this administration or on Harris to try to be the polar opposite of Trump or anyone else, essentially in trying to then say that what Harris is doing or what Harris should be doing should be stronger in pressuring, you know, Israel to stand down, even as it's having the success as it does. I find that very interesting. And then she closed that event to press into others, maybe because she expected that type of thing there. Kamala's campaign finally has also admitted that distributing tax dollars based on race would be illegal. That's something that took a little while for them to talk about because of the promises that were made. I think the Daily Caller was one of the places that reported on this.

I thought that was interesting. The opportunity agenda for black men is what part of her campaign promise is called, part of the initiative, and that would not be allowed. You could not choose for a race-specific reason how to hand out tax dollars to some and not to others. is nice that they finally admit to the illegalities of the plan that they have there and what it would actually mean as far as, you know,

just essentially actual real life versions of rules and changes as opposed to just saying things out loud that you have no intention. There promises you don't intend to keep, I guess, as we often know in the world of politics, and now appears very, very

many minority voters believe to be true about that party, about that side of the aisle, that they will promise you things during an election, and they will do very, very little, if anything, to actually live up to any of those promises once they're in office. I find it interesting that that's discussion. Finally, also out there is just like a quicker run through some of the headlines. House Democrats are suing the FEC over campaign finance loopholes. This is according to Axios. House Democrats believe that some of the ad spending and whatnot that's been going on is stuff

that should not be allowed. The campaign arm of the House Democratic Party is trying to create controversy where there may not be controversy, I guess. Democrats have accused Republicans of illegally financing their campaign ads and appealed those tactics upward. It is interesting because one of the biggest conversations in this world right now is the amount of money that Harris raised and how that money was raised for Biden and not for her, at least a good portion of it was,

and how she then started to use it all. And there were challenges or certain questions about how legal that is, even though she was technically on the ticket. So I think that's the reason they did it the way they did. And now trying to push this sort of narrative of saying that Republicans are spending money illegally when Democrats are actually spending far more money right now, makes you wonder if they're going to open themselves up to some additional criticism that they didn't really want to be opened up to.

But that's just me guessing right now. All right. I want to play this. This is, to me, and I know I've played the audio a lot today, but I just can't help it. The five funniest jokes that Biden, that, excuse me, that Trump told at the Al Smith dinner, which was a fundraising event that for some reason Kamala Harris chose to skip. It was interesting that she wasn't there. Also, I guess you could say that it's interesting that Biden's not there,

since Biden is a politically relevant person being the current president of our country, but darn it, who cares? We don't talk about him that much anymore. Here are some of those jokes. I used to think the Democrats were crazy for saying that men have periods, but then I met Tim Walts. Well, I'd better wrap up because Mayor Adams told me earlier that I needed to make this one very quick, especially the city has reserved this room for a large group of illegal aliens coming in from Texas. There's a group called White Dudes for Harris. Have you seen this? White Dudes for Harris. Anybody know? Are some of you here? White dudes fan? It doesn't sound like it.

But I'm not worried about them at all because their wives and their wives lovers are all voting for me. A major issue in this race is child care and Kamala has put forward a concept of a plan. A lot of people don't like it. The only piece of advice I would have for her and the event that she wins would be not to let her husband Doug anywhere near the nanny. Just keep them away. Wow. That's a nasty one. Chuck Schumer is here looking very glum.

This looks dumb. It looks glum. But look on the bright side, Chuck, considering how woke your party has become, if Kamala loses, you still have a chance to become the first woman president. That is excellent, as far as humor goes to me. well done, well delivered. That is Trump. At an event that Harris obviously felt she wouldn't do that well at. So I thought that was interesting too as far as something out there. Two other quick things just running through again, more headlines at the tail end of our show today. Kamala Harris is priming Democrats for a violent resistance. If Trump wins, this was a headline in the Federalist. What I think is interesting about this, and this was actually also a narrative that somewhat came up in a recent interview Tucker Carlson gave with someone, is

the odds of this being potentially true. And it doesn't necessarily mean that Democrats are trying to create it. I know that you could say that's a conspiracy theory or you can very much believe in that. But regardless of where you're at in those discussions, when you say ad nauseum that someone is a threat to the people, a threat to democracy itself, et cetera, et cetera. And when you see anger and all sorts of other things play out in your own everyday life, I've had multiple experiences in even the profession of being in radio. I was talking about some of them yesterday that seemed to be somewhat created by political disagreements that permeate other parts of your life. And I'm sure I'm not alone in dealing with that. I'm sure there's several other people out there who feel like if politics is something that you've allowed to be discussed around you in a professional way,

that you've either hidden your politics from people for certain reasons, or if you've discussed them, you may have had some sort of retribution play out because of that if it wasn't the politics of the other people around you. So all of that does play into this idea that Harris could absolutely wind up being someone who could potentially instigate, much like they claim Trump did, a January 6th-esque event if her side loses. I would it be exactly the same thing? I doubt it. I don't necessarily believe that. And obviously, I don't think Trump is responsible for anything that happened that day as far as what he did or didn't do. But nonetheless, I just think it's an important moment, whether it's the federalist or anyone else writing about this, to take a second and reflect on the likelihood of people being incredibly, incredibly mad at who the next president of the United States is, if it's not their pick.

I'm not telling you, you can't be passionate, you shouldn't care. I'm not going to get on a soapbox like that and tell you how to feel. But I do wonder if the success of the political machine, that's what I'm going to call it, in making people believe that it's sports or anything else to a degree that's insane is working to, well because it doesn't seem far-fetched to me at all to listen to some of the rhetoric, and I could play some of the rhetoric, but I'm going to choose not to this time, because I do think there's aspects of it for Harris that, you know, I'm not, I don't think it's going to actually encourage anyone listening to this show to do anything, but there's aspects of it that's like, are you, are you begging for this? Are you hoping for this to occur? Because it's weird

if you're going to go after Trump as much as you have for what you blame him for, but then somewhat seem to silently be hoping that things go crazy if you don't win. But nonetheless, as I I say that, I also do wonder if there's a way back, a path back for the American people themselves to remember, we're not fighting against each other. I mean, we're disagreeing with each other, and that's fine. We don't need to kumbaya. But I do think a lot about what Rush Limbaugh used to say about how much the politicians desire us to be at odds and to kind of hate each other based on our political positions. And it seems that that has become as successful as it will ever become in the history of this country right now. It doesn't seem like we need to go any further.

in people thinking that, wow, you voted for who? How dare you? And that I think is at the heart of what the Federalist is at least saying they expect could happen. Anyway, one other quick one, and then I'll take a break. A CBS interview that you've probably easily heard about now on 60 minutes, or excuse me, face the nation, and 60 minutes, things that featured Kamala Harris are now actually going to be in court, seen if they broke any sort of rules. There was an FCC complaint filed by the Center for American Rights against that broadcaster. for the way in which they disingenuously, not even edited, but full on added an answer to a question that wasn't the question that was asked into their coverage of the 60 Minutes conversation with Kamala Harris, so it would be briefer, so it would be shorter, so it would be essentially different. It is amazing to not actually snip up pieces of an interview to shorten someone's answer, but to full on just repurpose something from somewhere else and say, yeah, that's fine. No one's going to catch us doing this.

And my favorite part of this story, by the way, I'll just throw one other piece out there to it. They allowed themselves to be caught. It's because of the way that you immediately try to promote the things you make in the world we live in right now, the world of news media. You don't want the turnaround to be that long. You tape it and a little bit after you tape it, you want it to be put out there in the world in some form or fashion.

It's because of that, that American people got to see two versions of an answer to the same question. if they hadn't rushed it and let their editing department do their terrible editing stuff, which I'm glad they did this. I'm glad they let us know we might not be aware if no one else taped that conversation that would have eventually exposed it, that they edited it the way they did. But it's because their promo audio and video didn't match their end result audio and video that people ask questions and we wound up in a case where an FCC complaint has been filed. But I'd like more information about that.

and I wonder, as I imagine most of you do, how often that actually happens. That media gets fully away with just editing stuff however they want because they don't promote it wrongly by accident, which is I assume what happened there. All right, quick break, a little bit more as Craig Collins filling in on The Dana Show. Not able to catch all three hours of the Dana Show? Subscribe to the full podcast and get news and laughs delivered in short, easy to digest episodes.

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Just a pre-warning. Facebook, the only place where I have more than a few people. All right, let's do this. I thought this was interesting. A mom went viral for her disgusting, is what they're calling it, slow cooker meal, slow cooker meal for the family. A lot of people, I think, do this, especially moms. They figure out a tried and true recipe that they can make, maybe even something that you put in before you leave the house, and then it's done by the time you get home. We've all had these. The recipe that is somewhat of an abomination. I think in my house, it used to just be all the leftovers are now together, and that's a meal, me. which was not always fun to consume, but never anything quite as, I guess, attempting to see what happens as this thing is.

There is a generous amount of heavy cream, chicken broth, a massive dollop of seeded mustard, a knob of butter, garlic, onion powder, and then a bunch of different meat. Mostly it looks like hot dogs

are all put into the slow cooker, and then it cooks for a while, and then children are fed what is essentially, I don't know, prison slop, I'm not sure what you would call this. But she's gone viral because she bragged about it. She said the kids love it.

So that's all that matters, lady. Don't worry about the rest of us or anyone else that wants to criticize what seems to be a disgusting meal. I just go ahead and keep making it. But a lot of the criticism, too, is it didn't seem like there was any rhyme or reason there. Sometimes it's hot dog pieces, sometimes chicken, whatever, and other stuff in the slow cooker. And then, boom, this is done. This is a meal. You know, my favorite thing that happened to me growing up just quickly and you probably don't care

but I'll tell you anyway, because we got a very little amount of time here left. My mom got to a point when it was just my brother and I in the house. And she was a single mom, raised four kids, where she knew that we knew how to make a couple items. One of those was chicken nuggets. So she had a bunch of chicken nuggets. This is true. Frozen ones in an outside freezer in our garage.

And whenever dinner didn't need to be made by anybody but us kids, she'd look at us and she'd be like, just do the chicken nuggets. And we were thrilled. Me and my brother would be like, no problem, mom. We got you covered tonight. We throw a bunch of chicken nuggets on a cooking sheet, put it in the oven, take it out, consume it. That was her meal. I loved that.

That was the best. Yes, there were days where there was actual cooked food and like prepared meals and different items. And then there were chicken nugget days. I don't know what happened during the work day or what else caused them to be a thing, but they were not disliked by me and my brother. And I think to this day, I still now always have chicken nuggets in my freezer, just in the off chance that I want to be lazy. And that's what I want to make because it was awesome. One last quick story. I thought this was interesting. A doctor went viral for telling you how to

remember stuff that you really want to remember. And the process is very difficult. Not only do you have to understand the material, you then separated into topics, you handwrite all the topics down in bullet points, you then retype all the topics that you've handwritten, you then summarize the information on a walk. Oh, and then you record yourself and listen to yourself back as a podcast of you talking about the information you're trying to learn. You do all that and you learn stuff. don't do all that because that's way too time consuming and you live life like the rest of us. So good luck to you, which one you choose. This has been Craig Collins filling in. Dana is back on Monday on The Dana Show.